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spellican

spellican is the alternative form of spillikin.

Meaning of spillikin

Noun

spillikin (plural spillikins)

  1. One of the straws (or small pieces of wood, ivory, etc.) used in the game of jackstraws or spillikins.
    Synonyms:
    jackstraw

Forms of spellican

pluralspellicans

Questions about spellican

What is spellican the alternative form of?
Spellican is the alternative form of spillikin.

Words near spellican in the dictionary

  1. spelled things out
  2. speller
  3. spellers
  4. spellfire
  5. spellful
  6. spellican
  7. spellicans
  8. spelling
  9. spelling alphabet
  10. spelling alphabets
  11. Spelling B

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Adapted from Wiktionary: spellican (page history and authors); spillikin (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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